In this myth, the Yanomamo account for the creation of human beings
and for their ferocity. The myth is told by the shaman Dedeheiwa.

Long ago, when people "like us" lived in a village "over there," Moon
lived there too, and ate the souls of children. The villagers became
very angry, especially because when Moon descended to consume the
ashes of children, hanging from the roof in gourds, he crunched and
chanted as he gloated over his evil tricks. So the ancestor Suhirina,
who was very beautiful and tall, shot the moon with a bamboo-tipped
arrow, and Moon's blood spilled all over the earth. Human beings came
from this blood: strong and fierce people from the center where the
most blood spilled, and weaker people from the Moon's droplets. You
are from true blood, Dedeheiwa tells Chagnon, because there are many
of you; my own village is weak, as we are descended from the droplets.
It is because of Moon's blood, explains the shaman, that men fight and
kill each other.